Time Lapse....How does it work. (Sample of what i've got so far)

[Mr Yuck]

Here's what I have so far.

I had the settings on auto thinking it would just compensate for some of the lighting.

Sped it up about 60x with windows movie maker.

Battery died at 45 minutes.

I have a panasonic PV DV203 and 1 battery.

I'm gonna start doing this more.

Any pointers?

[Jimmy B]

No pointers but looks neat, Jimmy B

[Mr Yuck]

Thanks, I got another sunset, I think the trick is to leave everything on automatic, only set the white balance to "Sunlight" or something else static, for the inland one, it was set to manual, that's what was messing it up.

Anyway, here's the second try. I mixed a few pictures in and chose a different song. I also put the other time lapse in.

Of course the battery died right when the sun hit the horizon again, I gotta get a new camera...or start when the sun is lower.

[ken1953]

I really need to start watching this forum more frequently. I really liked these attempts. Your choices of music really added to the experience. My Nikon CP8400 does time lapse, but I haven't figured out how to do it with my Pentax ist DL yet. It is something I definitely want to explore.
Keep up the great work!!!! I look forward to seeing lots more...
Ken

[mjs1973]

So how are you creating these? Are you using your digital video camera, and then just speeding them up? I saw a couple of time lapse movies yesterday, that were created with a Canon 20D. I may have to give this a try with my DRebel, if I can find out how to create a movie out of still photos.

Here is a link to the videos I saw.

http://www.break.com/index/la_and_sf_time_lapse.html

[Mr Yuck]

I used my Panasonic PV-DV203...a 5 year old DV camera, and then sped it up with Windows Movie Maker 2. :lol:

[ken1953]

Michael...if I'm not mistaken, you can put your series of photos in a "filmstrip" and set your speed between shots to like 1/30th of a sec or something like that...I'm not sure how fast these film strips will let you change...but as I understand from what little I've read...it's not too hard...
Ken

[mjs1973]

Thanks for the info Ken. My biggest question about time lapse with a DSLR is, how often you would have to take a still image, in order to create a smooth time lapse video, and would it work better with a lot of still images taken very quickly, or with longer exposures.

[ken1953]

I'm like you Michael and just learning this stuff...but my thought on the subject would be that you need to take your pictures at a time span that would show slight movement, and over a sufficient amount of time to capture the full effect.
For example, a flower opening my require only one shot every hour or so, whereas a sunset, you may want to do every 15-30 seconds...I once saw a timelapse of the sun at the north pole over a 24 hour period. I think they said they did a shot every 15 minutes...it was awesome...hehe...
but, I, like you, really would like more info on more details...long exposure versus short exposure...etc...
Ken

[MJS]

Beautiful sequence. The white balance on auto might be the way to go. We are going to be shooting a sunrise to sunset sequence over Biscayne National Park soon for a transition theme between different dive sites within the park, I hope it works as well.

[mjs1973]

Has anyone used the animation feature in CS2 to create a time lapse video?